English Explanatory Dictionary

anti-intellectual

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Hostile to intellectual thinking, methods, or ideas.

noun

A person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods.

Word forms

anti-intellectual more anti-intellectual most anti-intellectual antiintellectual anti-intellectuals

Etymology

From anti- + intellectual.

Synonyms

philistine

Related words

anti-intellectualism

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